Irrelevant? – 12 November 2009

Having the ‘Christian’ tag can make aspects of my life seem irrelevant to others.  Why would anyone want to go to church?  

A while ago I spent some time looking at Genesis and Exodus.  I am very much among the many others who have found that even these very old bits of the Bible have an uncanny way of speaking into the world of facebook and mobile phones.

The experiences of our lives are actually not that different than the lives of Bible characters – making life work and keeping going, enjoying and celebrating, as well as suffering and commiserating … It is not always easy to trust in God when situations seem tough …just as the experiences of the Israelites in the desert when they ran out of food and water …faith is sometimes little more than gritting your teeth and choosing to trust …and then life gets better in some way or other.

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.  By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

Hebrews 11:8-10 [NIV]